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Insiders Say X’s Crowdsourced Anti-Disinformation Tool Is Making the Problem Worse
On Saturday, the official Israel account on X posted a picture of what looks like a child’s bedroom with blood…
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The US Just Escalated Its AI Chip War With China
At an event in Beijing this week, the Chinese search giant Baidu announced a new version of its most capable…
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Job Hunting Sucks. This Programmer Filled Out 250 Applications to Find Out Why
After he landed an interview, Sachdev spent 40 hours scouring job sites for tips, cramming his notebook full of hypothetical…
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AI Chatbots Can Guess Your Personal Information From What You Type
The way you talk can reveal a lot about you—especially if you’re talking to a chatbot. New research reveals that…
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A ‘Godfather of AI’ Calls for an Organization to Defend Humanity
Yoshua Bengio’s pioneering research helped bring about ChatGPT and the current AI boom. Now he’s worried AI could harm civilization,…
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A ‘Green’ Search Engine Sees Danger—and Opportunity—in the Generative AI Revolution
In the era of search wars fought between giants, it’s tough to be small. Berlin-based Ecosia offers a search engine…
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Millions of Workers Are Training AI Models for Pennies
In 2016, Oskarina Fuentes got a tip from a friend that seemed too good to be true. Her life in…
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How China’s EV Boom Caught Western Car Companies Asleep at the Wheel
David Tyfield, a professor of political economy at Lancaster University and author of the 2019 book Liberalism 2.0 and the…
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X’s Sneaky New Ads Might Be Illegal
Last week, Mashable reported that on X (formerly Twitter), users were noticing a new type of advertisement: Minus a regular…
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The Curse of the Creator Economy
Journalist Taylor Lorenz isn’t the first to declare legacy media a dead industry walking. But few voice it with the…
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